Quotes About Grief

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

The sorrow, grief, and rage you feel is a measure of your humanity and your evolutionary maturity. As your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal.

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow.

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

ELEGY, n. A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection.

My family has a Christmas tradition: Every year, they kill my mom.

Because seeing someone's heart ripped out, presumably for the first time, is something a person should accept naturally, like finding out there's no Santa Clause.

Jinx, I know you just lost your grandfather, but you straighten out your tone right now or I will smack you one!

Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?

I never saw a dollar bill cry at anyone's funeral.

Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder?

Death is the tyrant of the imagination.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

Things die. But they don't always stay dead. Believe me, I know.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

To lose a child ... was something that could end one's world. One could never get back to how it was before. The stars went out. The moon disappeared. The birds became silent.

Tears and grief are good for reflection, moving on is still the best solution.

The fear of loving a dog, is knowing one day they'll be gone and you could never find eyes that express all that you feel.

Never let the salt of your tears be tasteless in grief.

How we respond to grief can shape our present

There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.

I grief for the foolishness of my ignorance.